Single women unable to build temporary shelters

Many have not registered for reconstruction aid. Even those who lack the physical and human resources to build a temporary shelter.

Dammar Kumari Khatri has been living under a tarpaulin tent ever since the November 3 earthquake destroyed her house. Khatri, 63, is a native of Halchaur in Nalgad Municipality-8, Jajarkot, the district most affected by the magnitude 6.4 earthquake. She is suffering from asthma and has been living alone after her husband died 13 years ago. Her two married children live elsewhere with their own families. Until the earthquake left her homeless, Khatri did not feel the disadvantages of living alone, she says. But ever since she was displaced, the need for a man in the house and of able-bodied family members has deepened.